Destroyed Berlin (1945)

Panorama of ruins of destroyed houses on the streets of Berlin in May 1945. Berliners clearing rubble (panorama).

Berliners and an American tank among the rubble, women passing buckets of water to each other in a chain, lining up along the street, panorama of the street.

City residents clearing piles of broken bricks.

Faces of elderly women in hats reading announcements from the commandant's office.

Panorama of the surviving wall of a building with broken windows, damaged during street fighting, remains of advertising signs on the wall.

People on the streets of Berlin.

Girls and women on the steps of the Reichstag littered with broken bricks collect surviving bricks and boards.

Loading a board shield onto a cart.

A woman on a street in Berlin places dry branches for kindling in a baby carriage, a broken artillery piece stands nearby.

A man pushes a log loaded onto his bicycle along the street.

People pull out pieces of wood for kindling from under the rubble and put them in carts.

Clearing up piles of broken bricks on a street in Berlin (above).

People push pieces of wood in a cart.

Berliners clearing up piles of broken bricks on a street in the city, view of a destroyed building (panorama).